Bradley Keoun

Bradley Keoun

Bradley Keoun is CoinDesk's managing editor of markets, where he oversees a team of reporters covering cryptocurrency markets globally. A two-time Loeb Awards finalist, he previously was senior global finance and economic correspondent for TheStreet and before that worked as an editor and reporter for Bloomberg News in New York and Mexico City, reporting on Wall Street, emerging markets and the energy industry. He started out as a police-beat reporter for the Gainesville Sun in Florida and later worked as a general-assignment reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana, he double-majored in electrical engineering and classical studies as an undergraduate at Duke University and later obtained a master's in journalism from the University of Florida. He owns less than $1,000 each of several cryptocurrencies.

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Rapid Bank Runs Reveal Deposits Are Now Magic Internet Money, Too
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says the speed of the Silicon Valley Bank run was “very different from what we’ve seen in the past.” However, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she is not considering a "blanket" deposit guarantee.
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The MetaMask Institutional booth at Paris Blockchain Week 2022 (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)
ConsenSys’ MetaMask Institutional Starts Staking Marketplace With Allnodes, Blockdaemon, Kiln
The new marketplace comes just weeks before Ethereum’s much-anticipated Shanghai hard fork that should spur growth in staking services.
The MetaMask Institutional booth at Paris Blockchain Week 2022 (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)
Crypto smart order router - US Patent 11,580,600 B2
Crypto Trading Tech Firm CoinRoutes Wins Patent for ‘Smart Order Router’
The invention by the father-and-son team of David and Ian Weisberger allows “clients to keep control of their own private and exchange keys to their wallets and accounts, but can execute orders across multiple exchanges simultaneously,” according to the patent document.
Crypto smart order router - US Patent 11,580,600 B2
Silvergate Bank
How Silvergate’s Crypto Collapse Differed From Silicon Valley Bank’s: No Bailout
A deep dive into regulatory filings shows how Silvergate Bank's collapse was, in a strange way, the ideal scenario for a failing institution. Sure, shareholders got wiped out, but depositors are made whole and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. isn't putting in a dime.
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Coinbase Starts ‘Wallet as a Service’ Companies Can Build Into Their Own Apps
The U.S. crypto exchange says the new service could help companies “to help bring the next hundred million customers into Web3 through a seamless wallet-onboarding experience.”
AI Artwork Security Wallet Locked Safety (DALL-E/CoinDesk)
Swing (Luke Chui/Unsplash)
Cross-Chain Protocol Swing Says ‘No-Code’ Product to Speed Up App Deployment
Decentralized applications that straddle multiple blockchains are becoming more common, though the cross-chain “bridges” often used to move digital assets back and forth between the different networks are frequently targeted by hackers.
Swing (Luke Chui/Unsplash)
CDCROP: How to Connect MetaMask to Polygon Network (Aquaryus15/Unsplash)
Polygon Rolls Out Zero-Knowledge, Privacy-Enhanced Identification Product
Under the design for Polygon ID, a bar owner could theoretically use the credential-verification system to verify a patron is of age, without ever having to look at any identification card.
CDCROP: How to Connect MetaMask to Polygon Network (Aquaryus15/Unsplash)
Crypto accountant
Former Accounting Team of FTX US Auditor Armanino Sets Up Shop as The Network Firm
The episode highlights yet another chokepoint for the blockchain industry: It's become harder for crypto startups to enlist big accounting firms to do audits and asset attestations.
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blockchain accountaint
Chainlink, TrueUSD Start Real-Time ‘Mint Lock’ Verification of Stablecoin Reserves
The key is to get information from the bank account where the stablecoin’s reserves are kept to the blockchain-based smart contract that controls issuance of new TUSD.
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testing
Pantos, a Multichain Token System Backed by Crypto Exchange Bitpanda, Starts Beta Version
The launch by Pantos, backed by the Austrian crypto exchange Bitpanda, follows a $12.1 million initial coin offering in 2018.
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